Sidney Lumet"s riveting courtroom drama earned five OscarÂ(r) nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Paul Newman"s towering performance as a down-and-out alcoholic attorney who stumbles onto one last chance to redeem himself. When attorney Frank Calvin (Newman) is given an open-and-shut medical malpractice case that no one thinks he can win, he courageously decides to refuse a settlement from the hospital. Instead he takes the case, and the entire legal system, to court.